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Newspaper Page Textt Colleges Require More Money To Develop Social Techniques By BRUCE BIOSSAT Government and industry this year are giving 200 colleges and uni versities about 125,000,000 lor reasearch, according to i New York Times survey. That's an increase of about 500 per cent over prewar years. But the picture isn't as rosy as it seems. In the first place, soaring costs haven't spared the schools A million dollars doesn't buy as . much research as it did in 1839 Administrative expenses especially have risen sharply, and often re search grants make no allowance for them. The colleges have to foot the added bill. ' There's another big worry. The lion's share of the money goes for projects in the so-called applied sciences fields where effort is to ward finding practical application of principles already discovered in earlier fundamental research. Even where funds are made -available for basic studies, the feeling is that scientists will tend to steer their researches into ave njes that may lead to practical results, because rhey know money is thus more likely to be granted. The danger in all this attention to the practical is that fundamen tal studies vital to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge may be neglected. Findings that today may appear remote from practical NIW LOCATION! Dr. H. B. Soo field Palmer Chiropractor Rifle Rang Road 1 10 mi. North ot County Shops Offle Hours' lo-is and S-S Saturtort 10-1S A. M . X-rj nuro-ralofnUr milii for pliul correction. FLOOR CONTRACTING -Hardwood Sondinf Laying Old Floors Mod Like New. CARLSON'S FLOOR SERVICI Phone 102-R-l 16 Years Experience Art nh". HE am MIME JfWILRY 116 N. Jackie Phono 44S 'J If) GOOD DRY CLtANING SAVES WEAR ,, . ..., vv your bet ol l0 1X . . F 'iriilhiiit ) ,,, m m w, J.un.o w mini in nii A no"" , CLEANERS Pickup anrj Delivery Service Phone 1008-R 217 I. Douglas AcroM Frem'the Coort House rickup and delivery service at Winston Voristty Store, Winston, twice weekly. use suddenly take on value when linked with other discoveries or new needs. Scientists fear that some impor tant fields of study may be stag nated unless funds for "pure re search" come to the colleges with out strings. Most grants these days specify how the money shall b e used rather than leaving that question to the college scholars who may know far better where it is needed. School authorities are disturbed by the tendency of fundgivers to emphasize the necessity for quick solutions to major scientific pro blems, like cures for cancer o r polio. The givers sometimes act as if they won't be satisfied their money has been well spent unless answers are found within their own lifetimes. Desirsble as this may seem off hand, it is not always the best approach to a serious scientific fiuzzle. In the end, funds given or pure research might prove the wisest and fastest way to achieve a cure for cancer. Money granted tor specific undertakings related to known principles might turn out to be largely wasted. A further fact dimming the re search picture: to little money goes for exploration in the social sciences. Many schools get no grants at all for studies in econ omics, politics and sociology. They limp along with what funds they can divert from tuition revenues normally consumed in administra tive and other operations. The fine irony in this situation has often been noted. We spend un told millions to develop new inven tions for both peace and war. In the case of the atom bomb it waa billions. Yet we virtually ignore the crying need for new social techniques to cope with these great creations. , And so we fumble and grope, and perhaps blunder badly, be fore we finally learn how to use the things the scientist puts in our hands. Research in social affairs ought to go hand in hand with advancement in the physical sciences. Wanted: a man with $10,000,000 who will give the whole package to some university for social in vestigation that might help us keep abreast of the frightening products of our laboratories. Londslidt Damages Historic Fort Canby ASTORIA Marxh t JBl 1 gigantic landslide smashed across me lape Disappointment road Sunday, missing by 100 yards a coast guard lifeboat station on the Washington side of the Columbia river. The slide started a half-mile up In (ha kill rimiAPaut mI 1A t deep, and 'roared on into Baker Day, cresting a new strip of land jutting 125 yards into the bay. It knocked out power and tele phone lines, but they were restored Monday. The slide was on Fort Canby, an army post now on caretaker's status. It smashed to kindling two empty army buildings. Coastguardsmen said there was no warning. The slide roared down deafeningly at 5:30 a. m. but caus ed no damage to the station it self. . Dr. E. W. Carter Chiropodist Foot Specialist 129 N. Jackson Phone 1170 Over Rexall Drug Store DOORS $4.95 to $33.00 PAGE LUMBER It FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. . Phone 242 thes Our FINE QUALITY, DEPENDABLE DRY CLEANING SERVICE odds months of bsnr In uAur rli-itr.! laem vau lanksnfl r. , oil timet! f4. .. ,ZfV il lliil til .L j-Jfto I, Ant. OPPOSITE SAXES This Is the section of the 100-piece Sun Devil Tempo. Betty Blythe uses all of through the big bass sax, while 300 - to spare in breezing through a score One Step Led To Story Of Dancer's By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK-i-m Time, you old hurdy gurdy man, crank us up a little aperitif music, please. Just a little background tune will do something to go with this true tale that started one generation ago: The girl's name was Betty, and she had a twinkle in her eye and a fervor in her feet. The two-step, the waits and the Schottische were hot stuff then, and Betty could dance them like no other girl in her crowd. She was, as people said in those dim, old-fashioned days, "some shucks." Among her swains was a young sobersides cslled Herbert. He had money in the bank, an ache in his heart and lead in his feet. Herbert was a wallflower. He would squire Betty to dances and then sit 'em out on the sidelines, watching like a stricken gazelle while Betty romped about the floor Gathers Courage Finally he wrestled up his cour age and proposed marriage. He was a nice boy, and up to his arm pits in character. But to Betty dancing was life itself and ahe didn't want to two-step her way to the altar with a boy friend whose heels were dragging. "Learn to dance, Herbert, and then we'll talk it over," she said. So Herbert went to a teacher and bought himself some lessons, and in no months at all he was pivoting on his own two feet. The guy turned out to be good at it, too. They danced and they danced and they danced, and the next thing they knew they were married. It would be nice if we could just say that they tangoed happily ever after, but you know how life is always out of step. Betty found she was going to have a baby, so she quit dancing and started knit ting little things. But not Herbert. He was in the grip of foot fever by then. He started stepping out on Betty. She didn't gripe about it much, figur ing he had a right to sow a few wild oats before they hired a 1913 type baby sitter. What she didn't take into account was Alice. Now there was a girl with soul in her feet! After about 10,000 bunny-huggin trips around a dance floor with Alice, Herbert for got all about being a prospective father. Divorced They had It out he and Betty and she went home to mother. And then there was a divorce. Later Herbert married Alice. And soon after that Alice put the thumb on him. "No more dancing, junior," she said. "We're grown up now." And she made it stick, too. Poor Her bert never got to Charleston or do the Big Apple or the Lindy or the Lambeth walk. He s hsd a long in termission. And what about Betty? Oh, she didn't do any more fox trotting either. As a matter of fact it kept her on the dog trot just to earn enough to support herself and Her bert's child. His nsme was Bob. Betty did a good job on raising him. He grew up into a big fine handsome man. He never married and he never learned to dance. Never had time for it. Fast service on AUTO GLASS REPAIRS Now is tho timo to Kova outo glost repair modt. Wa Hood I ell typo of glow and door hordworo. 1 S ytort of outo glau torvico in Roseburg. DOYLE'S Sales & Service Highway at Garden Valley (HONE 11 big and the little of the sax band of Arizona State College, her 90 pounds to blow a note pound George Rayes has plenty on the little soprano saxophone. Another In This Romantic Life Bob has been a wonderful son to Betty. Her money worries are all over. Bob has seen to that. He makes a good steady income. He plays in a dance band. Decrees In Italy Produce Strikes MILAN. Italy, March 20 Thousands of Communist-led work ers quit work suddenly today and packed Milan's main square in a protest demonstration against strict new government measures to keep order in Italy. Union leaders in both Milan and Genoa were reported considering a general strike call as a futher protest. Similar demonstrations took place in Bologna, Florence and Genoa, where the walkouts closed factories and slopped streetcars. The action of the Milan workers was seen as the first move in Communist and pro-Communist so cialist opposition to the new orders from Premier De Gasperi's cabi net. The new decrees, issued Satur day, increased the national police force and authorized local pre fects to ban public meetings for the next three months. The regulations also banned un ion meetings within factories and forbade advertisement of parly Connuniquea or periodlcala in the streets by anyone except authoriz ed newspaper vendors. Apple Export Subsidy Program Is Extended WASHINGTON, March 21. UP) The Agriculture department has extended its apple export subsidy program until May 1. It had been set to end April 1. Under the program, the depart ment pays exporters up to SO, per cent of the export price but not more than S1.25 a bushel on ap ples sold abroad. The department said 1,806,097 bushels had been exported or de clared for export by March 1 under this program. That is less than two per cent of last years' crop. Ashland's Famed Festival Of Shakespeare Scheduled ASHLAND, March 21-J.'P)-Ash-land will hold its famed Shake spearean festival this year from August 2 to 24 in the outdoor Eliza- J bethan theater in Lithia park. President John Cotton and direc tors of the group sponsoring the festival met over the weekend to make plans for the 10th anniver sary program. Four playa will be presented in the repertoire. A banquet and a parade wilt mark the opening day. ' "Honest, Daphne, the only reason we're late is be cause the boys ond I stopped by the RAINBOW CAFE for a sandwich ... I promise to take you the next time." Profits Of Big Corporations Brings Up Old Question By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK The rush of the gianta in industry in recent days to report profits huge in dol lar totals, ana many ot them au time records revives the twin de- bale over: 1. The size of profits and how they are made. 2. Bigness in busi ness and how large a company can grow without hurting others in that industry, and hence the consum ing public through monopoly. Let's look at a few of these gi ants: At their assets, in some cases in the billions, and at their salea, some topping their assets several times. Let's relate their profits to sales to see bow much the con sumer puts in the earninga kitty, and to assets to see what return investora get on their money-. And then let's look at some ot the conditions varying in each in dustry, which management feels justify bigness in business, huge earnings in terms of dollar totals, and large corporate reserves against the needs of replacements and expansion. General Motors announces a prof it of S656 million in 1949. It says it made this the highest corporate profit ever because its sales were also at a peak. 15.7 billion. In other words, it made 11 centa on every dollar's worth of products it sold, and it sold you a lot. Same Before War - But GM says it made that same profit on its salea dollar, on the average, in the years just before the war. Profit totals are higher because sales totals are higher Then it adds that its fixed costs are so high that when and if the huge sales volume starts to slide profits will tumble at a much fast er rate. General Motors' assets of $28 billion make it the largest of man ufacturing corporations, although it is topped by several banks and insurance companies, and by giant American , Telephone and Tele' graph, with $10.7 billion. But that is like comparing apples and eggs. AT&T requires a much larger plant to render its services than GM needs to turn the raw materials and parts it buys into cars. The motor giant's profit was 23.2 percent return on assets. The phone company a S232.4 million profit was a 2.2 percent return. Du Pont reports earnings of more than J213'i million on sales of a little more than $1 billion, or 20.8 cents on the sales dollar. But the chemical giant's income includes $80 millions in dividends on the GM stock it holds. Du Pont asks you to consider that without these motor dividends tne profits irom its own operations were $133 mil- lion, or 10'l cents on the sales dollar. Du Pont's assets were S1H billion. With GM dividends figur ed in, the return comes to 12.2 percent of assets; without the divi dends, 7.8 percent. Other billion dollar manufactur ing corporations include U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and General Elec tric. "Big Steel" reports sales of S2.S billion and assets of S2.S billion. Profits of just under $166 million were 7.2 cents on the sales dollar, and 8 5 percent of assets. Bethle hem's $1.3 billion sales topped its $1.1 billion assets. Its $99 million profit brought 73 cents on the sales dollar, and 8.6 percent of assets. General Electric sold you $16 billion worth of goods at a profit of $125' million, or 7.8 cents on the dollar, and 10.7 percent ot its $1.1 billion assets. There is one important difference in these manufacturing giants. The steel companies are using up some of their natural assets the iron ore and coal they own and they must spend millions to find and DRESSMAKING ALTERATIONS ' Zot Newman 925 Cobb 8t. Phone 387-R DO YOU KNOW . . . that th tiuiri of about os ot II ail men ti may b corrwted b spinal and IntasUna) traatmanU with proptr diat Dr. M. C. C a soo I CHittopftACTio parsiriAP MI L Caaa Tal. Mtl Of Big Businesses process more. The auto and appli ance companies are buying raw materials from othera and convert ing them into end products. This la more marked when you turn to the large food processing and chain store companies. Here sales are far in excess of assets. Profits show high returns against assets, but take a much smaller slice of the sales dollar. And the raw materials these companies use are generally renewed by nature with the next crop. General Foods, for example, re ports a record million of sales on assets of $238 million. Rec ord high profits of almost $27' million are only 58 cents of the sales dollar, although HVi percent of assets. Are the giants of Industry ex panding too fast for the nation's good? Two of the companies U.S. Steel and General Foods anticipate the question and make a sharp reply. While each company is growing larger year by year, and has plans to go on expanding, the percentage of the business it does, related to the total for its industry as a whole, has been coming down. In other words, they are grow ing bigger, and so are their com petitors and so is the nation. j Jr. High To See Show Of Puppets The National Assemblies of Los Angeles will present Bushe'a mar ionettes at a Roseburg junior high school assembly in the school au ditorium Wednesday, March 22, at 11 a.m., Principal R. R. Brand an nounced today. Or. and Mrs. Bushe, who have puppets from all over the world, were once featured with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus. Their collection includes puppets that appeared in the Bar num museum at New. York City in 1852 and one that is 300 years old. Dr. Bushe gives the history of each as he demonstrates each type. The Bushe puppets have been in several movies and, recently, in television broadcasts. The school assembly Is open to the public, the principal said. There is no admission charge. Another assembly on Thursday of this week will feature the junior high band. The band will play mu sical selections at 1:45 p.m. that day. Time Is Money! Don't risk bain a lata for Importonf occasions toe u to your wotcn noods odiuttmont or npmit. Irinf it to vt now for ox port, conscien tious workmanship. In watch ma k In 9, always look for the word "cortifiod." Opo D)ly 10 a. m. to 7 p. . HALL'S JEWELRY Cortifiod Worchmokor 345 S. Stoohons Acroti from Greyhound rt . i r I ' V -1 V Bat way to tprucm up m Ulmphont it wiU eot, dry cloth... never uith water, or any other liquid. HOW TO TREAT YOUR TELEPHONE Suggestions to help protect your service Vlt' Via LoMOJ 1. A twisted cord can lesd to trouble. Although the wires sre dpeciillv dcipied for flexibility, too many twii and kinks may eventually break them and inter fere with service until a repairman can call. Good idea to net the curls out by letting the receiver dangle and unwind by itself . . . then keep them out by remembering, each time you call, not to put turns in the cord ss you handle the receiver. J. Did you ever stop to think that your telephone it one serviie or pine of equipment in your home tint's repaired and maintiincd for life st no extra cost to you? This maintenance is one of the values in cluded in the rales you pay for serviie . . . rates that make it one of yout really good buys today. The Pacific Telephone jmsBtW Tuei., Mar. 21, 1930 -The Nowt-Rtvlow, Roseburaj, Oro. f New Highway Official Attend! First Meeting PORTLAND. March 21, Milo K. Mclver, recently appoint ed to the State Highway commis sion, Monday attended his first commission meeting. Mclver will not officially join the body until April 1, when Chair man T. H. Banfield will leave of fice, but he attended to get ac quainted with proceedings. Bids were opened on eight pr jects. Another day of grac was given contractora before opening bids on the largest project, the projected re-routing of the Old Oregon Trail between La Grande and North Powder. It will cut seven miles off the old Ladd Canyon route, and will eliminate the city of Union from the route. Baker To Vote On Bonds For Better Lighting BAKER, March 21. UPi Vot ers here are going to get a chance to brighten the corner where they are. The city commission has decided to put a S100.0OO bond issue pro posal on the May ballot here to raise the money to revise the city lighting system. Mayor McKim, who announced the issue will be put to vote in Wouldn't you rather use the permanent beauticians use? 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Nutrl-Tonle is the famous nrofeuional rjermanent. used mmmu by beauticians foe millions of luxurious prnninrnii 01 prices up to $20 and higher. It's the only cold permanent with genuine OIL Creme bsie (patented). Nothing like it. Try it... see the difference. SAVII iUV IIMll If YOU HAVI HAIT1C 4c $25 Mimi t i Si.is Rexall Store 127 N. Jackson 2. It's built to take it ... but your telephone can develop ailments if it's dropped. So make sure the stand it sits on is solid and is in a spot where it won't b accidentally bumped. Other ways to help protect j service: Avoid "gadget" attachment for your tele- phone . . . keep cords clear ot doorway" where they i may be pinched . . . aad always knp water away from j wires and fittings. 'oielepfioniXoneof,